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#157 – Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion

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The Colloid Engine Is a Subset of Colloid

The engine is a subset of colloid. It's more of ion electrospray colloid tends to mean like liquid droplets coming off of the jet. If you make smaller and smaller cones, you get pure ions. So we can keep supplying more and more of the liquid to those emission sites. And then we also provide a power electronic system that talks to the spacecraft and turns our device on and off.

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